Lockwood Broadcast Group has appointed Christopher Payne news director of its Fox affiliate in WFXG Augusta, Ga. Payne is a veteran of TV news and programming with background as an […]
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a senior director of sports. Other existing jobs include openings for Sinclair’s corporate engineering team, Hearst’s national consumer unit, Lockwood’s station in Augusta, Nexstar’s Houston station, Hearst’s Louisville station and a SVP at Nexstar’s corporate office.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for Sinclair’s corporate engineering team; Hearst’s national consumer unit; Lockwood’s station in Augusta, Ga.; Nexstar’s Houston CW and Hearst’s CBS affil in Louisville.
She moves from WVUE New Orleans to succeed Denise Vickers as head of Lockwood Broadcast Group’s Georgia Fox affiliate.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a general sales manager, a producer, a sales director, morning news reporter and executive producer, and a photojournalist.
Denise Vickers Named WFXG Augusta GM
She moves to the Lockwood Fox affiliate from WHNT Huntsville, Ala., following its spinoff as part of the Gray-Raycom merger.
Scott Dempsey remains GM of the group’s WBTV Charlotte and will now have oversight of WIS Columbia, S.C.; WTOC Savannah, Ga.; and WFXG Augusta, Ga.
WFXG Names Angela Green News Director
She joins Raycom’s Fox affiliate in Augusta, Ga., from WNCT Greenville, N.C.
WFXG GM Barry Barth Announces Retirement
The head of Raycom’s Fox affiliate in Augusta, Ga., will end his broadcast television career of more than 50 years at the end of this year.
The FCC has granted Raycom Media permission to move ahead with its $18-million acquisition of WFXG Augusta, Ga. (DMA 114), a Fox affiliate it has been managing under a local marketing agreement since 2003. Raycom doesn’t own or operate any other stations in the market.
The Fox affiliate in Augusta, Ga., has been using WJBF to supply the content for its 10 p.m. newscast, but that will go to an in-house operation on Oct. 1, says station manager Barry Barth. “We’re building out a newsroom right now,”
Augusta’s Paper Finds Paywall Success
Augusta, Ga., may be a small market, but its main newspaper, the Augusta Chronicle, is making big noise as one of the few sites to have found success with a metered paywall. Competition from local TV outlets, three of which are owned by Media General, is tepid.